Given that there are criteria within the legislation that are in place for communities, should they wish to have a navigable waterway added back into the act, and given that it's happened twice before, why would the minister not just continue adding waterways as communities raise them with him? Again, my question to the parliamentary secretary would be this. On June 20, 2016, the Minister of Transport said the following, concerning the Navigation Protection Act, “some of them [meaning measures] we definitely will change”.
Given the fact that we've launched into this study.... He stated quite eloquently that he was looking forward to the work of this committee and the recommendations that would be made, yet, already on June 20, he knew there were some measures that were definitely going to change. What measures was he referring to? Why is there the need for a study like this, if he already has the ability to add back in waterways that meet the criteria outlined in the legislation?